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The information here should be folded into the General Info Plugin. The various bits can be emitted as events, which can be intercepted by both the General Info Plugin, and responded to by the system to do different things.

Essentially, most of this stuff would be folded in as a data grid, with custom data grid cells, with images set for the bits inside the cells (a new screen handler in Orbiter would be needed for this.), with the normal data grid fields still set, so that not only can standard orbiter show something nice, but qOrbiter can also pick up the data.

This is going to take some learning and work for someone who does not yet understand how to make new orbiter displays/code, but it would be worth it.

it'll take a while. The first thing is to figure out how to get the information into a form that the plugin can parse. Examples of this could be, writing out to a text file, talking to an external shell script, etc.

UPDATE: Before i ran a script to read the sunrise/-set from the log files. This wasn't best practice since it was a higher load for the system, just to get this value.I found out that php has a command date_sunrise and date_sunset that calculs your sunrise timing. This based on your lattitude and longitude. And let these values now be in the database.